LGBTQ history

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/28/2021
  

  The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families

  by Michael Waters

  Before the legal recognition of same-sex adoptive parents, social workers around the country made decisions to place gay and lesbian teens with gay and lesbian foster parents as a humane and protective act. 

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• SOURCE: them.
  2/23/2021
  

  These Portraits Revolutionized the Way Queer Women Were Seen in the 1970s

  Joan E. Biren (known as JEB) published a collection of photographs of lesbians in 1979, a pioneering representation of queer women living openly. It will be reissued in March with retrospective essays. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/17/2021
  

  The Original Shock of AIDS in “It’s a Sin”

  The British show "It's a Sin" reconstructs the emergence of AIDS in London through the story of a group of flatmates working to reconcile fear and affirmation. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/11/2021
  

  The Lady Gaga Anthem That Previewed a Decade of Culture Wars

  Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was embraced as an anthem by some LGBTQ fans, but immediately raised questions about identity and cultural authority that are at the center of online culture wars today. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/7/2021
  

  National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Reminds Us of the Deep Costs of Inequality

  by Dan Royles

  "This history shows us that biomedical interventions such as antiretrovirals to treat HIV or the vaccine against the coronavirus yield some progress in the fight against epidemic disease, but do little to alter the underlying inequities that make some communities more vulnerable to illness in the first place."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/19/2021
  

  The Stories of Those Who Lost Decades in the Closet

  "On a quiet block in downtown Brooklyn, a new photography exhibit — housed inside a senior living center — invites viewers to consider an essential question: How do we measure the emotional and social costs of discrimination?"

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  1/21/2021
  

  The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars

  Even before COVID-19 a combination of factors have made lesbian bars much less common than their counterparts catering to gay men. Two filmmakers are working to raise funds to keep these establishments in business. This article also explains how bars became safe gathering places as cities passed "vice" laws that subjected lesbians to police harassment in public.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/2/2020
  

  Deb Price, First Nationally Syndicated Columnist on Gay Life, Dies at 62

  Deb Price's columns were at the forefront of gay and lesbian journalists working openly in the news media and news outlets covering issues concerning LGBTQ Americans and communities with depth and nuance.

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• SOURCE: Independent
  11/19/2020
  

  Female Pirate Lovers Whose Story was Ignored by Male Historians Immortalized with Statue

  A new memorial recognizes the relationship of pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read and secures their place in the history of piracy.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  11/11/2020
  

  America Comes Out

  A new book evaluates the origins and political evolution of "coming out" in gay America.

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• 11/8/2020
  

  How Two French Introverts Quietly Fought the Nazis

  by Jeffrey H. Jackson

  Two introverted French Lesbian artists conducted a campaign of subversion against the Nazis occupying the Island of Jersey that a trial judge called "more dangerous than soldiers." A new book explains how.

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• SOURCE: Orange County Register
  10/9/2020
  

  CSUF Professor is Digitally Mapping the History of Gay Spaces in America

  A new digital project by Eric Gonzaba and Amanda Regan maps out places listed in gay travel guides from the 1960s to the present, giving new insight into how gay people outside of tolerant cities created social spaces. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/6/2020
  

  The Overlooked Queer History of Medieval Christianity

  by Roland Betancourt

  An attentive reading of the record shows that same-sex intimacy, gender fluidity, and diverse sexual identities were prevalent among early Christians, contrary to the claims made by some fundamentalists today that these represent deviations from historical norms. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/28/2020
  

  Never Before Published Images of Men in Love Between 1850 and 1950

  A new book of found and collected photographs documents romantic love betwen men before the gay rights revolution. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9/25/2020
  

  Rimbaud and Verlaine: France Agonises over Digging up Gay Poets

  While advocates see reinterrment at the National Mausoleum as a recognition of gay contributors to French literary history, some opponents suggest the iconoclastic poets would have rejected any such honor. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  9/22/2020
  

  Desiring Machines

  In 1993, soon after the fall of the Soviet Union, consensual same-sex relationships were decriminalized in Russia as the economy underwent a wrenching transition away from central planning. Documentarian William E. Jones documents this moment by splicing together the non-sexual scenes from gay pornography shot in the former Soviet bloc. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/14/2020
  

  The Long History Behind Donald Trump’s Outreach To LGBTQ Voters

  by Neil J. Young

  Gay Republicans emerged as a political force in response to both radical leadership in the gay liberation movement and the rise of evangelicals as a force in the Republican party. Today they may have to decide which fight is more important. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/14/2020
  

  How Queer Women Powered the Suffrage Movement

  Many of the women who fought for representation were rebels living nonnormative, queer lives.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  8/4/2020
  

  Psychiatry and Homosexuality Draft Exemptions During the Vietnam War

  by Natalie Shibley

  Although many gay rights organizations argued that the exclusion of homosexuals from the armed forces was unconstitutional and discriminatory, several of the same groups also offered advice to gay men who wanted to be disqualified from military service.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/30/2020
  

  Why We Owe Gay Marriage to an Early Trans Activist

  by Eric Cervini

  Why isn't Sylvia Rivera a household name?